by Brad Strong | Nov 20, 2019 | Blog, CAD Translation, CAD Viewing, What's New |
What 8 Tasks Should a CAD Viewer Perform? What should you look for in a CAD Viewer? First and foremost, it should read the files you need to view. But there are other things to consider; check out our list below. View Major CAD Formats. Easily Navigate Parts and Assemblies. View & Manage PMI. See Inside CAD Geometry. Create & Save Views. Dimension, Measure & Calculate. Interrogate Solids. Share the Data with Others. View Major CAD Formats Being able to view more CAD formats gives you more flexibility in dealing with existing customers, and broadens your ability to pursue new customers. A good CAD viewer will let you: Read CATIA V4 Model,...
by Brad Strong | Oct 3, 2019 | Blog, CAD Systems, CAD Translation, CAD Viewing, What's New |
What can a CATIA viewer do? Overview View ANY CATIA FormatZoom, Pan, Orbit, Save Named ViewsView PMI and Export to 3D PDFChange Color, Transparency, Cut SectionsMeasure, Dimension, EstimateMass Properties, Surface Area, Bounding BoxOptimize Settings for .Model, .CATPart and .CATProduct ReadOptimize Polygon and Write to Polygonal Formats Watch the Video – More Detail Below. 1-Minute CATIA Viewer Overview Open ANY CATIA Format CATIA V4 .Model parts and assembliesCATIA V5 & V6 CATPart and CATProduct parts and assembliesCGR Visrep modelsxCGM geometric modeling kernel filesDetect Hybrid Brep / Visrep assemblies Viewing Capabilities Orbit, Zoom, Pan Figure...
by Brad Strong | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, CAD Comparison, CAD Diagnostics, CAD Translation, CAD Validation, What's New |
Avoid Million-Dollar Manufacturing Disasters Note: This blog post is a subset of a white paper entitled Avoiding Engineering Disasters which will be released soon, and contains more information as well as citations. We will post a link to the paper here soon. In engineering, something as simple as declaring the wrong unit of measure can create a disaster costing millions of dollars. John Pike, space policy director at the Federation of American Scientists, stated, “It is very difficult for me to imagine how such a fundamental, basic discrepancy could have remained in the system for so long,” regarding the English to Metric units mistake at NASA. Watch...
by Brad Strong | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, CAD Translation, Training, What's New |
Many web-based and video-based tutorials are of such poor quality (slow or missing pages, bad or unintelligible audio, incredibly slow pacing and over-reliance on slides) that they are unusable. Since a lot of our customers are CATIA users, we wanted to help clarify where the best CATIA tutorials are. If you know of good quality free or pro CATIA tutorial resources that are not listed here, please let us know via social@TransMagic.com and we will add them to this list. Free CATIA Tutorials Online CATIA V5k Tutorials – This free web-based tutorial resource has a lot of value and depth, being divided into categories of Part Design, Assembly Design,...
by Brad Strong | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog, CAD Translation, CAD Viewing, What's New |
A CATIA file converter can translate to and from CATIA CAD and polygonal formats. The majority of CATIA files you will encounter will be .CATPart, or part files, and .CATProduct, or assembly files, although there are three other formats you may run into. This article will deal with what those formats are, best practices to consider when reading or writing to a CATIA format, and how to get access to a CATIA file converter. CATIA Formats .Model – The .model extension is used for CATIA V4 parts and assemblies. Having the same name for parts and assemblies can create some confusion until the file is actually opened. .CATPart – A CATPart file is a part file or...
